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Soon To Be MyTouch 4G Owner: Where Should I Start The Hacking

I will be receiving my new mytouch 4g this thurs. I have been bouncing around with different phones in the past two months. My last three phones were the G2, Nexus S, and most recently the Inspire.
What can I expect coming to this side? What are the most sought after roms kernels? The phone im getting is already rooted with s off and all that so I guess the easy part is done :+}
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Tell us why...what make you getting rid of those phone Nexus S G2 Inspire 4G?
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I give all my phones a trial period. Its pretty much when im done hacking till I cant hack no more or till I get simply bored. But I always wanted to try a a mytouch but never got around to it.
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Didn't see that you were already rooted! In that case, TeamRoyal and Faux pretty much own the MT4G dev section. So anything from them is good, and of course the good ol CM7.

mackster248 said:
How to root!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHrtVzlsA_s
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He said it's already rooted...

mackster248 said:
Didn't see that you were already rooted! In that case, TeamRoyal and Faux pretty much own the MT4G dev section. So anything from them is good, and of course the good ol CM7.
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I see. Team Royal has 90% of the roms. I guess I will have a busy day when it comes. I think I downloaded 8 roms. Lol
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CM7 > all other ROMs.

RoyalMint is my daily driver since it came out. Team Royal specifically Option94 has been really working hard on it. Not saying they dont work hard on any other of their ROMs.

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RoyalMint is my daily driver since it came out. Team Royal specifically Option94 has been really working hard on it. Not saying they dont work hard on any other of their ROMs.
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Thats what i might try first. Its like no matter where i go whether its youtube or somewhere someone has TeamRoyal. it must take the mytouch to another level

Mytouch or sidekick 4g? NEED QUICK REPLIES!!!!!

Hey guys currently I have a sidekick 4g. And I'm just wondering what you guys think of the mytouch 4g. My friend offered to trade and I want to know how is the phone? What are the up and downs and the current roms that are on the speedy title. (I like fast roms) what's the latest update and build quality etc...that's it. Thanks and pleassee reply quickly
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mksin11 said:
Hey guys currently I have a sidekick 4g. And I'm just wondering what you guys think of the mytouch 4g. My friend offered to trade and I want to know how is the phone? What are the up and downs and the current roms that are on the speedy title. (I like fast roms) what's the latest update and build quality etc...that's it. Thanks and pleassee reply quickly
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MT4G by FAR.

mackster248 said:
MT4G by FAR.
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Lol ok thanks? Sorry can you please add some details and thing that I would love on the mytouch...?
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mksin11 said:
Lol ok thanks? Sorry can you please add some details and thing that I would love on the mytouch...?
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SK4G is unsupported both by devs and Samsung. Aren't you guys still stuck with Froyo or something? Either way even if you get GB you'll never see anything past GB unless you get CM9, which is highly unlikely.
MT4G has awesome Sense ROM's, a solid MIUI ROM, and a very stable CM7 ROM with CM9 looking within weeks.

mackster248 said:
SK4G is unsupported both by devs and Samsung. Aren't you guys still stuck with Froyo or something? Either way even if you get GB you'll never see anything past GB unless you get CM9, which is highly unlikely.
MT4G has awesome Sense ROM's, a solid MIUI ROM, and a very stable CM7 ROM with CM9 looking within weeks.
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What he said

I actually traded my sk4g for a Mytouch and its completely with it. Yes a keyboard its nice but there's no development, and the Mytouch has a bigger screen and typing/swyping is a lot easier that on the sidekick screen.
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Getting a Mytouch 4G for a Sidekick 4G is like getting an Audi for Kia (I don't specifically have anything against Kia, but I doubt anyone will argue that a Kia is a better car than an Audi). Don't ask questions. TRADE! Trade and run before your friend realizes their mistake.
I played with a Sidekick 4G for a few minutes and it was a joke. Minus a physical keyboard a Mytouch 4G is better in every way.
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my friend and me traded for a day. Im testing it out . What are some roms I should try out?
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Make sure it has the good screen and good chip.

The screen is good. Beautiful. But what mean by chip?
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one of the chips are known to have a higher failure rate, i have the bad one and its been ok for a bout a year.
Screen
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=863679
chip
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1081243

How can I see this without using adb? Is it possible
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=14767024&postcount=272]

I have a good chip. Thanks for telling me to check
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Good deal then, i would make the trade. good luck with what ever happens.

Do you know a good ron to recommend?
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its all personal preference, i like sense, all the new sense 3.5 builds are awesome. just flash em all till you find one you like.

if you are concidering getting rid of your mt4g... DONT

over the past few onths i have gone from the mt4g to the sidekick 4g, to the g2x, to the nexus s. what i have learned is that no matter how nice a phone looks it will never beat an htc. the only reason i would ever leave this phone again is for the amaze or sensation.
htc's sense is by far the best ui there is and there is not a single app that can even come close to replicating it. trust me if you get rid of it you will regret it!!

+1
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platypuss94 said:
over the past few onths i have gone from the mt4g to the sidekick 4g, to the g2x, to the nexus s. what i have learned is that no matter how nice a phone looks it will never beat an htc. the only reason i would ever leave this phone again is for the amaze or sensation.
htc's sense is by far the best ui there is and there is not a single app that can even come close to replicating it. trust me if you get rid of it you will regret it!!
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is the nexus s that bad ? i REALLY wanted that phone , now i have hopes on getting a galaxy nexus. but i think one upgrade i will die for , is probally for the mytouch 4G slide aka the doubleshot , that phone is amazing.
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jjbat87 said:
is the nexus s that bad ? i REALLY wanted that phone , now i have hopes on getting a galaxy nexus. but i think one upgrade i will die for , is probally for the mytouch 4G slide aka the doubleshot , that phone is amazing.
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if you ask me, i say yes. but, i'm pretty biased toward samsuck products, so i guess my opinions aren't very accurate. though, i DO have to admit, the Galaxy Nexus is pretty nice
lol why not the HTC Sensation? or even the Amaze?
also +1 on what the OP said, MT4G really is a beast phone. THANK YOU HTC!

Im planning to get windows phone when i bored with mt4g. The only thing i love from sense is its quality of its software. Best GUI ever on android phone. But ithink metro ui is thebest gui ever found on a phone.
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Alot of phones look bad ass on paper but suck after launch. Will have to wait a bit to see what the galaxy nexus is made of. The name alone is retarded.
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samsung makes some pretty cool phones but i dont need to be near a computer to flash a rom with my HTC. Thats what will keep me an HTC customer. Motorola and Samsung need to get their act together when it comes to root access.

In all fairness, the MyTouch 4G is terrible... until you root it and put a new rom on.

aysiu said:
In all fairness, the MyTouch 4G is terrible... until you root it and put a new rom on.
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Qtf
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aysiu said:
In all fairness, the MyTouch 4G is terrible... until you root it and put a new rom on.
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I'd agree with that. The hardware specs allow it to run any custom ROM extremely well, but the stock "mySense" ROM leaves a lot to be desired.

TeeJay3800 said:
I'd agree with that. The hardware specs allow it to run any custom ROM extremely well, but the stock "mySense" ROM leaves a lot to be desired.
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That's a lie! I just came from a Samsung Galaxy S2 and I miss my phone like crazy
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kikbuttcheerleader said:
That's a lie! I just came from a Samsung Galaxy S2 and I miss my phone like crazy
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What was so good about it? I know the processor is better but what's so good about that phone?
From what I've seen I dont like the GUI on that phone
I like this phone bc we have a lot of different roms to choose from and its all around a good fast stable phone
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It depends on what you want in a phone. Since I don't really consider myself a power user, the MT4G has been close to perfect for me in terms of having fairly high-end hardware (remember, the majority of mainstream phones out there aren't very good even though we consider 1GHz and WVGA to be bare minimum requirements) at an acceptable price point.
What matters most to me is an active developer community because there was no way in hell regardless of what phone I got that I was going to keep the stock ROM. With all this Carrier IQ crap going on now, I had the right mindset all along and also got lucky that the Virtuous team removes Carrier IQ from their ROMs, which is good because I do like the Sense UI. However, I won't call myself an HTC fan. I'm only loyal to a product that works as I expect or want it to work, and I'm not that impressed with what I'm reading about HTC's newest phones. In addition, the Amaze reportedly has Carrier IQ. Fine and easy for people here to remove it, but not for the regular smartphone user.
If you told me to recommend a current new phone on the market compatible with T-Mobile's network for the non-rooter/flasher, I would recommend the Galaxy Nexus for AOSP's lack of spyware, even if that means having to wait at least another week for it in the US.

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aysiu said:
In all fairness, the MyTouch 4G is terrible... until you root it and put a new rom on.
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I agree. When I first got the mt4g I got bored quickly. Then I rooted and I fell in love.
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aysiu said:
In all fairness, the MyTouch 4G is terrible... until you root it and put a new rom on.
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+1 that and +1 the op. When rooted the mytouch 4g is one of the best phones out there. Like other people said the only thing I'd even think about trading it for is am Amaze or Sensation.
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I loved my mytouch since day one. in my opinion I don't think its the phone jus more of the software. Sense phones period are the best. Unlike asop, you have the best of both worlds (when rooted that is).
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I agree 100%. I went from a mytouch 3G 1.2 to a Galaxy S 4G and even though the Galaxy was much faster and smoother compared to the Mytouch 3G, it was difficult to root and the aftermarket ROMs for it are basically variations of the same stock TouchWiz rom. I found myself longing for my clunky old mytouch 3G.
I agree with the OP that I will never go with anything but an HTC phone from this point forward.
The funny thing about it is that Android advocates are always talking about specs and iPhone people are always harping on user experience because their phones are generally out-speced by the latest Android phones. I hate to say it but the MT4G sort of proves the Apple people right. Other phones that were released at the same time as the MT4G had better specs and even better testing scores but I can say from first hand experience that the MyTouch out performs most of them for everyday use, even with the stock rom installed.

Will there be a cm9 for mt4g

I was wondering if there is going to be a cm9 for the mt4g and if there is please vote this phone is a wonderful piece of machinery.
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aliamin86 said:
I was wondering if there is going to be a cm9 for the mt4g and if there is please vote this phone is a wonderful piece of machinery.
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That's entirely up to whom ever wants to port it over or if it will be officially supported by the CM crew. They have been really good about supporting the MyTouch 4G for a long time now so I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't an official release for us over here.

Orical said:
That's entirely up to whom ever wants to port it over or if it will be officially supported by the CM crew. They have been really good about supporting the MyTouch 4G for a long time now so I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't an official release for us over here.
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I really hope they do i love this phone it's really a powerful phone for its age
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I would definitely love to see cm9. This phone has surprisingly lasted me since its release date. I'm switching over to the amaze but I can't forsee my self ever getting rid of this phone.
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Mytouch
I've had the mytouch for over a year and it's been great, such an awesome phone and I would love to see it with cm9

Thats whats bothering me the phone has potential any rom any type of 3d acceleration it handles flawlessly sence roms cm roms miui roms all work without a problem. Dev-feb is already working on a ics rom tried it the phone handled it without a problem forget the bugs.
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Its time to move on to a new phone, i doubt any will bother with phone once the next version of android comes out
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I don't know what other htc phones are good i compared them the mt4g holds its place
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any devs going to the Amaze 4g?

so im finally making the switch to a duel core phone, and decided to go with the HTC amaze 4g. i like samsung but there phones seem so flimsy to me, touchwiz is awful and m experience with the galaxy s was a weird one. anyways...i was just wondering if any of our favorite devs are moving/planning on moving or deving on the amaze. I have loved the development on this phone and have grown fond of the work of certain devs, (faux123, team royal, and TDJ). after seeing that tdj moved to the SGS2, it almost made me want to throw my amaze on craigslist, although i saw Faux wich made me happy ha. anyways i hope i see development on that phone as good as the mt4g was/has been.

Jms122589 said:
so im finally making the switch to a duel core phone, and decided to go with the HTC amaze 4g. i like samsung but there phones seem so flimsy to me, touchwiz is awful and m experience with the galaxy s was a weird one. anyways...i was just wondering if any of our favorite devs are moving/planning on moving or deving on the amaze. I have loved the development on this phone and have grown fond of the work of certain devs, (faux123, team royal, and TDJ). after seeing that tdj moved to the SGS2, it almost made me want to throw my amaze on craigslist, although i saw Faux wich made me happy ha. anyways i hope i see development on that phone as good as the mt4g was/has been.
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Faux123 has an amaze but there is no s-off so no roms for s-on devices. Tdj and royalknight aka darkside dev team went to the sgs2. Your best bet is the amaze if you don't mind waiting for s-off
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Jms122589 said:
so im finally making the switch to a duel core phone, and decided to go with the HTC amaze 4g. i like samsung but there phones seem so flimsy to me, touchwiz is awful and m experience with the galaxy s was a weird one. anyways...i was just wondering if any of our favorite devs are moving/planning on moving or deving on the amaze. I have loved the development on this phone and have grown fond of the work of certain devs, (faux123, team royal, and TDJ). after seeing that tdj moved to the SGS2, it almost made me want to throw my amaze on craigslist, although i saw Faux wich made me happy ha. anyways i hope i see development on that phone as good as the mt4g was/has been.
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Or waiting till may for the HTC ville with ics and sense 4.0 *drools*
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urmothersluvr said:
Faux123 has an amaze but there is no s-off so no roms for s-on devices. Tdj and royalknight aka darkside dev team went to the sgs2. Your best bet is the amaze if you don't mind waiting for s-off
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Not true. For the amaze you don't need s-off. All you need is an unlocked bootloader. I bought my girl the amaze because her mt4g broke. Unfortunately it came s-on (some people will be lucky enough and have s-off already when when receiving their amaze) so the same week I bought her the phone, I unlocked the bootloader. Its almost the same as s-off. I was able to grant her permroot and she can even flash custom roms and kernels. I already debloated her amaze and added a custom battery, tether and have setcpu running on it to get better battery life.
At this moment I'm researching on which custom rom is best for her so I can flash.
So if you lurk the amaze forum you'll see they have a few selection on custom roms, kernels and mods.
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coupetastic-droid said:
Not true. For the amaze you don't need s-off. All you need is an unlocked bootloader. I bought my girl the amaze because her mt4g broke. Unfortunately it came s-on (some people will be lucky enough and have s-off already when when receiving their amaze) so the same week I bought her the phone, I unlocked the bootloader. Its almost the same as s-off. I was able to grant her permroot and she can even flash custom roms and kernels. I already debloated her amaze and added a custom battery, tether and have setcpu running on it to get better battery life.
At this moment I'm researching on which custom rom is best for her so I can flash.
So if you lurk the amaze forum you'll see they have a few selection on custom roms, kernels and mods.
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+1 they have a nice lil community there
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I'm waiting out till the HTC ville comes out
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Nicgraner said:
I'm waiting out till the HTC ville comes out
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I'm still also debating on that. If I should just wait on the ville. I kind of like how the amaze looks more.
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coupetastic-droid said:
I'm still also debating on that. If I should just wait on the ville. I kind of like how the amaze looks more.
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I saw different pics of the ville and don't know which ones are the actual pics for it. One of them looked a lot like the galaxy nexus and the other one just looked like crap.
And how did you guys find out about this phone? This is the first time i've heard of it.

Yea.I bought my amaze off contract so when my contract is up for renewal ill sell the amaze and get the next best thing in Q4 of this year...that's when all the best stuff comes out anyways
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I2IEAILiiTY said:
I saw different pics of the ville and don't know which ones are the actual pics for it. One of them looked a lot like the galaxy nexus and the other one just looked like crap.
And how did you guys find out about this phone? This is the first time i've heard of it.
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I'm always googling and searching for new devices so I can have the next best thing. The pic I saw of the ville looked more like the sensation to me.
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Jms122589 said:
Yea.I bought my amaze off contract so when my contract is up for renewal ill sell the amaze and get the next best thing in Q4 of this year...that's when all the best stuff comes out anyways
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where'd you buy yours and how much? Just wondering cause I don't think phones are worth half a grand.

Just got the amaze today.basically a larger mytouch4g.Although it has a higher screen resolution,there isn't that great a difference from the mytouch.the camera is better no doubt.actually,its quite good for a camera.build is solid,yet remains light to the touch.
Sense 3.0 is so much smoother than any sense rom.
its abeautiful phone.
Recently got and unlocked a Sammy infuse.it has a nice Tom selection,which are high quality roms (Zeus) thanks dman,my daughter loves it.
I thought I'd prefer the amaze,but provably should have tried the sgs2.
Amaze is very good though!
Edit:yeah,that extra tenth of an inch on the Samsung phones makes a difference.atleast with the Zeus rom ,the infuse is kickass and so much smoother than any mytouch rom. Yet I made my choice.
Not dissatisfied,but miss that butter from the Sammy.
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Here's the ville http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_ville-4325.php
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Nicgraner said:
Here's the ville http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_ville-4325.php
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Yea, with pics officially getting to the amaze and the ville having those specs, for sure ill be getting the amaze instead. Just like the amaze looks best
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coupetastic-droid said:
Yea, with pics officially getting to the amaze and the ville having those specs, for sure ill be getting the amaze instead. Just like the amaze looks best
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I like the lack of buttons and ics with sense 4.0
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I2IEAILiiTY said:
where'd you buy yours and how much? Just wondering cause I don't think phones are worth half a grand.
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I got it off eBay for 350, still have yet to get it. Lets hope its not a POS! For every one who I know cares so much...I will let you guys know ha
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Nicgraner said:
Here's the ville http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_ville-4325.php
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As good as that looks..... I still feel I want this; http://www.gsmarena.com/huawei_ascend_p1_s-4409.php
Specs are pretty damn good, but.. the freaking phone is 6.69mm thin. The RAZR isn't even that thin.

GazaIan said:
As good as that looks..... I still feel I want this; http://www.gsmarena.com/huawei_ascend_p1_s-4409.php
Specs are pretty damn good, but.. the freaking phone is 6.69mm thin. The RAZR isn't even that thin.
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lol huawei? good luck with that

GazaIan said:
As good as that looks..... I still feel I want this; http://www.gsmarena.com/huawei_ascend_p1_s-4409.php
Specs are pretty damn good, but.. the freaking phone is 6.69mm thin. The RAZR isn't even that thin.
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Too squared for my taste
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saranhai said:
lol huawei? good luck with that
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Huawei is actually pretty good, aside from their low end piece of **** phones they originally released (Their original Ascend didn't even have a freaking GPU -_-).